Domestic cats first joined European communities around 2,000 years ago, during the age of Roman power, not in deep prehistory ...

Earlier, in 2018, when scientists sequenced the DNA extracted from Britain’s oldest complete skeleton, a 10,000-year-old male ...

Despite the ubiquity of cats in modern homes, we still don't know many details about the timing and routes of early cat ...

Based on genetic material preserved in birch bark tar from Estonia, researchers found that the teen likely had brown hair and ...

Around 5,000 years ago, at the dawn of the Bronze Age, a mass migration of peoples from the grasslands of the Eurasian steppe poured into Europe. Called the Yamnaya, these horse herders introduced ...

For most of Europe’s history, the people who lived there did not resemble the pale figures often shown in history books. New ...

Jan 10 (Reuters) - DNA obtained from the bones and teeth of ancient Europeans who lived up to 34,000 years ago is providing insight into the origin of the often-disabling neurological disease multiple ...

I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of ...

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible ...

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the ...

More than 1,600 ancient genomes have helped to trace the roots of a host of genetic traits found in modern Europeans. The genomes suggest that many characteristics — including a heightened risk for ...